"Last week we told you":http://mog.com/mollifire/blog_post/140751 that the Kurt Cobain documentary to About A Son will be heading to DVD on February 19th. What we didn't tell you was that the film's score, composed by Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Seattle musician/producer Steve Fisk, will also be "available for digital purchase on Barsuk Records":http://www.barsuk.com/shop/bark068 Febr...
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Fame sells when it comes to advertising. The Gap brand reinvented itself when it used Scarlett Johansson and Ashton Kutcher in ads, and Audrey Hepburn to sell their black skinny pants recently. Budget clothing house H&M sold out of their collections for Madonna and Stella McCartney, the designer daughter of Paul McCartney.Now Doc Martens UK will be using the likes of Kurt Cobain, Joey Ramone, J...
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FROM YAHOO:NEW YORK (AFP) - Angst-ridden grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has pushed Elvis into second place in a list of highest-earning dead celebrities, with the late Nirvana frontman raking in 50 million dollars in the past year.The Forbes.com website ranks 13 celebrities pushing up daisies on their income and proves that death need not be an obstacle to making money, with the group collectively e...
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Punk and grunge rock bands from the Northwest will each perform a different Nirvana song at a benefit concert Saturday (September 15) in Hoquiam, Washington for a Kurt Cobain memorial.The Aberdeen native led Nirvana to international fame. He took his life in Seattle in 1994 at the age of 27The all-ages concert will feature Jed, a successful Aberdeen- and Olympia-based rock band formed more than...
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Even if Kurt Cobain didn’t mind being used as an avatar in Guitar Hero 5, I’m fairly certain he wouldn’t want to be used to sing Bon Jovi or Bush – even if it’s only virtual. Isn’t Bon Jovi exactly the kind of band that went against everything Cobain stood for? And Bush… that’s exactly [...]
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Gus Van Sant's Last Days may have been an interesting abstract imagining of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain towards the end of his life and 2007's Kurt Cobain: About a Son did feature exclusive audio interviews with the music legend, but a proper biopic, with... There's more on this story at the following link...
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I imagine that being the child of a celebrity is difficult under any circumstances, and I’m not sure that, had he lived, there’s much Kurt Cobain would have been able to do for Frances Bean, his poorly-named daughter with Courtney Love. The guy was obviously pretty nutty himself so it’s not like we can sit [...]
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"Frances Bean Cobain in Elle (from In Case You Didn't Know)":http://icydk.com/2006/08/07/frances-bean-cobain-in-elle/I'm in shock.I'm that old.And she still has that trainwreck, Courtney, as a mother.
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The posthumous marketing of late Nirvana frontman and songwriter Kurt Cobain continues and Cobain, who was staunchly anti-corporate, must be rolling over in his grave over this deal that Courtney has done. Cobain's image has begun showing up on lunchboxes, an action figure and even a key chain that doubles as a small liquor flask, all manufactured by the National Entertainment Collectables Asso...
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According to VH1, Kurt Cobain's suicide was the second most shocking moment in rock and roll history. But VH1 also gives Christopher Knight and Flavor Flav a weekly paycheck, so their acumen is questionable at best. Nonetheless, one pull of a trigger on an April evening in 1994 sent the momentarily enfranchised right back to being the perpetually disenfranchised, and suddenly all those red f...
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Based on more than 25 hours of never-before-heard audiotaped interviews conducted by noted journalist Michael Azerrad, the movie KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON is an intimate and moving portrait of the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, told entirely in his own voice -- without celebrity soundbites, news clips, sensational or tabloid angles. It's who he was from the man himself, with cinematic imag...
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So Sunday was the 15th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. Does anyone still give a shit?Nirvana are pegged as a hugely influential and important band. People always say that Nirvana changed everything forever. But is that true? Sure, when Nirvana burst onto the scene they helped kill hair metal and brought in the era of "alternative music" (whatever the fuck that means) bu what does that even ...
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Tracks by R.E.M., David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bad Brains and Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard will be featured on the soundtrack to the film ??Kurt Cobain -- About a Son?? (Barsuk), according to Billboard.The film is told in Cobain's voice from audiotapes utilized by Michael Azzerad on his Nirvana book "Come As You Are."It was 13 years ago when the legendary frontman of Nirvana was found dead in hi...
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so because beautiful Jackie convinced me to get one of these mog thingys I decided this would be my first little post. These 10 gorgeous men are the hottest in rock. The first five are those in which I think they would be good lookin without their fame and the last five are those that I think are hot because of their music. Now I have a weird taste for boys, or so I've been told, but let us see...
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